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Is there a more patrician publisher than Everyman's Library? Serious question.
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poo in the loo
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>>8865995
They publish books by women and nonwhites. That's all you need to know
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There are more expensive publishers, but they're gaudy. EML is the sweet spot. Beautiful, well-built, and affordable.
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Wtf is gojng on in thjs book
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It basically throws a really confusing first chapter at you and then circles back and forth and explains everything. At the end of the book you will understand what went down with Sutpen and my boy Henry.
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>>8865976
just like tatami galaxy xD
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>>8867006
quality post
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Check out these beauties I got.
Dostoyevsky.
Karamazov Brothers & The Raw Youth/Adolescent.
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well consumed my friend!
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>>8865909
Thank you! I can't wait to finish Crime & Punishment so I can start with these.
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Very nice. Finished Karamozov a couple months ago for the first time. Very extensive read. A great novel. I say read one of his earlier and shorter works first, like Notes from Underground. But it seems you have it already so... start reading
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>studying and reading at home requires me to use a table at an uncomfortable height, have lots of distractions, disruptions due to noise and family members interrupting, and feelings of social isolation
>nearest university library is filled with Chads, Staceys, and normies during "the best time of their lives", requires me to use the bus to get there, and would make me feel like a huge loser due to aforementioned normies and the fact that I went to that university and hated my subject and had no social life, though it is a good place to study apart from that
>city's main library is further away, would make me feel like an even bigger loser due to not blending in with students, and its staffed by awful normies who probably look down on people who even read books
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good post
keep them coming
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Quit whining and read. If minor distractions get in the way of your reading, you probably weren't dedicated in the first place.
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Wow, this is a dilemma that really made me think. How about plugging in earphones, turning on white noises and reading that way?
ITT - One of these:
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>>8865862
>What I Got
>Mad Men Series Finale
I need to read this book
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Do you guys only post your own OC?
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How does one become a hyperpolyglot? I stumbled upon an article about Uku Masing, an Estonian translator where it is claimed that 'At his peak Masing was able to speak around 65 languages with the ability to translate from 20 of them.'
Being able to read in 20 many languages is already impressive, but to translate from all them sounds incredible.
Any other examples of polyglot translators?
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Currently struggling to learn french. I plan on learning german, russian, and greek at some point in my life
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I'm guessing no matter how hard most people try, they won't achieve that level of fluency in that many languages. That person was just an outlier with a weird brain.
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Dude English, French, Russian, German, Spanish, Italian and Greek are the only languages actually worth learning for literature. Add Chinese, Japanese and Latin if you're particularly autistic.
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Prescriptivism vs Descriptivism
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If your goal is uncompromising self-expression or originality than shouldn't you respect all Linguistic rules and Literary devices? The more abstruse your mode of externalization, the fewer people will care about what you have to say; and past a certain threshold there's no guarantee that even a single person will resonate with it. All descriptive roads lead to the same dead end of negative value.
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>>8865844
>all these big cuck words
Try the redpill
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>>8865844
Prescriptivism and descriptivism isn't about whether there ARE rules, it's about whether you give more weight to top down or bottom up (prescribing or describing)
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>than
>tfw you know exactly when to use "then" and "than" but your muscle memory randomly types one or the other regardless
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>told myself I'd stop reading wealth of nations and nichoas Nickleby and ranted about them on lit
>now feel too guilty to do it even though I tried to read wealth of nations again and read only 10 pages before getting really bored
>read some of Nicholas Nickleby and in a rare point where Dickens has Nicholas shoe any personality it was the same boring expected "muh honour muh sister" shit
The sign of a dead art form is that you can't use your own taste. Everything has become a mechanism for social signalling.
English literature in general is a female dominated low risk university degree leading to a half assed office job for well connected vanity careerist women to be near the investment bankers / power centre of their country.
Nothing worthwhile happens within the novel format these days. It is dead.
It's funny how /lit/ sees it as forbidden to discuss the business aspects of literature yet will only take words seriously if they're in the novel format.
It's funny how the creation of his has allowed literature to stand alone on this board and lit has absolutely nothing to say because the medium is dead. /his/ has the pseudo intellectual cred now
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>>8865806
tl;dr, faggot
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>>8865806
Pepe hates this!!!!!!
See how mad Pepe the frog of virginity is
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what's your endgame with these threads?
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Is Red Rising multi-culti communist propaganda?
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>>8865762
multiculturalism is a capitalist phenomenon, retard
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>>8865769
multiculturalism is an altruistic symptom of a prosperous nation not capitalism in itself
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>>8865833
>It's all cultural and the superstructure is operating independently of everything else
Sounds mad ideological to me senpai
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Why are writers and bookworms such eccentric people? They're as bad as theater folk.
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>>8865723
what is this disgusting looking snack?
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>>8865723
no one is as bad as theatre folk.
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>>8865723
I don't really see that much. They all live relatively normal lives, in my experience.
If you're talking about YA bookworms though, they do seem a bit more off.
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Is this the place to discuss theatre/plays?
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Yes, hello
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Ja, hallo
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Oui bonjour.
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>open a book
>it requires the application of imagination to visualise imagery without the aid of illustration
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>open imagination
>it's wall to wall anime tropes and stale memes
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i would write one about opening eyes but i dont understand enough about platonism
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> go to my subconscious mind with the aid of potent enthoegens, I realize it is full of Simpsons memes and references
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Was Hegel a hack, as our boy Schop puts it?
General Hegel discussion thread
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I'll let you in on a secret: no one here has read Hegel.
Nobody anywhere has read Hegel.
Anybody who says they have read Hegel is lying.
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>>8865632
reading Hegel titillates my head, I mean this literally, I feel the kind of sensation running around the inside of my skull that I feel when a girl puts her tongue on that weird line of skin that connects the glans to the shaft
I make weird moaning gestures and then close the pdf after a couple minutes, sated but confused, and like the girl's body lays there after the orgasm, pregnant with mystery, I see in my recently closed windows 'Phenomenology of Spirit.pdf', and I wonder what it holds
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>>8867455
What the actual fuck
I feel the same way desu
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Where do you get religious texts that aren't biased to those who don't believe/believe etc.?
For example, I'd like to read the bible as it's a behemoth in literature, but I don't want to read simplified or censored versions of it, or missing the "banned" parts of the bible
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>>8865616
probably some academic edition innit
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There is no "pure" bible.
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>>8865616
I'm afraid your very question is nonsensical. The entire Old Testament is about how non-Jews deserve fiery death and almost the entire New Testament is about how non-Christians and indeed most Christians deserve fiery torment in hell for eternity. The whole Bible is bias.
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Gass poster! Why did you never emphasize just how extremely comfy Omensetters luck is. So far this book has been nothing but the epitome of comfort. In a comforting vein similar to that of Mason and Dixon. The story is wonderful and the writing is beautiful. One thing you got right was Gasses(lol) ability to create beautiful prose. Anons you must read this book. Look beyond the meme that is the tunnel (even though it's great, a little negative, but that's okay) and try out some Gass. This book is where everyone should start ( if you need a starting point ). Also who else loves this series of penguins? The covers are great.
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So I read The Pedersen Kid and, while I found it very impressive, I didn't love it. I didn't have much of an emotional reaction to it, which caused me to find it good but not for me, I guess. I will say, the prose was fantastic (if self-indulgent at times).
Should I bother with Omensetter's Luck or the rest of In the Heart of the Heart of the Country (goddamn I love that title) if The Pedersen Kid didn't do it for me?
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>>8865539
I was going to start with In the Heart of the Heart of the Country
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>>8865562
Have you read mason and Dixon? Omensetters luck is somewhat similar to it, in that it's magical and whimsical at times. If the idea of omensetters luck interests you go for it. I knew from the first few pages I would love this book. that rarely happens to me anymore.